Gaby Wood
Author of Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
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Gaby Wood attended Cambridge University and has been a regular contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books and is now living in London, where she is a staff writer for The Observer
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This is a necessary book if you want to understand the connections between cyberpunk, gothic fiction, and the production of modern automata. This is where I first learned of the concept of 'the uncanny.'
It is an awesome book simply because of how it connects all these various things. Also the book's cover with the mechanical hand all opened-up is very apt.… (more)